[olug] Slow read speeds-SuSE

Craig Wolf cjwolf at mpsomaha.org
Thu Apr 29 14:33:45 UTC 2010


Nothing else is going on on that server over the weekend when the job starts.  Mon., Tue., and Wed. when the job is still running, users are accessing their files.


Craig Wolf
Linux Server Support
Backups Administrator
Desktop/Network Specialist
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>>> Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> 4/28/2010 4:34 PM >>>
Do you have any concurrency issues? Are any other processes or backups
accessing the same drive spindles at the same time as your backups?

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 16:16, Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> Ok, my backups from one of my linux servers takes 5 days to finish...my window is 36 hours, not working right.  Throughput of about 1.5GB/hour.
> So in my testing, copying a 158MB directory to the server takes about 1 Minute 5 seconds.  Copying same structure off the box takes almost 7 minutes.  Network switches show no issues/error.  iostat shows slow to no throughput at all on read.
>
> SO, the million dollar question is, what should I look at for fixing this??  Do I use hdparm?
>
> TIA!!
>
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